package: dpkg version: 1.16.4.1 severity: important user: multiarch-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org usertags: multiarch
Hi, wine is now making use of the 'Multi-Arch: allowed' feature to provide i386 dependencies for an amd64 virtual package. Unfortunately, this setup is leading to a lot of bug reports from users that don't realize that they need to manually enable multiarch support first: http://bugs.debian.org/676457 http://bugs.debian.org/676635 I wonder if most of this confusion could be avoided if dpkg were a bit more informative in cases where the user was trying to install 'Multi-Arch: allowed' packages, but hadn't yet enabled multiarch? A useful error message / help would include some of the info on the apt and dpkg configuration steps in the multiarch user howto: http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/HOWTO Best wishes, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
